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First Lady Sets Sail for Turkey

Oct. 4, 1963 - Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy (pictured yesterday in Greece) set sail from Greece tonight on an Aegean cruise to Turkey on...

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TV: Tonight on “The Twilight Zone”

Oct. 4, 1963 - Tonight on “The Twilight Zone,” it is 1974, and boxing — having been outlawed for humans — is performed by mechanical...

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TV: Tonight on “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour”

Oct. 4, 1963 - Tonight on “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour,” Janice Brandt (Anne Baxter, right) is caught between her abusive alcoholic husband...

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President Kennedy’s Upcoming Out-of-Town Schedule

Oct. 4, 1963 - President Kennedy (pictured yesterday at Little Rock Air Force Base), just back from a one-day trip to Arkansas, has at...

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Whitey Ford: “This Club Won’t Quit”

Oct. 3, 1963 - The Yankee clubhouse after today’s loss to Johnny Podres (pictured) and the Dodgers was ominously quiet, but you couldn’t...

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Podres Tames Yankee Bats as Dodgers Go Up 2-0

Oct. 3, 1963 - Johnny Podres, who can frustrate his followers by pitching lousy ball and then amaze them with a gem, today reasserted his...

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Some Italian-Americans Resent Spotlight on Valachi

Oct. 3, 1963 - Italian-Americans in New York expressed resentment today over the national spotlight that is being given the story of...

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President Kennedy Dedicates Dam in Arkansas

Oct. 3, 1963 - President Kennedy, visiting Arkansas to dedicate a dam in the “new South,” heard his civil rights proposals branded as...

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Yankees Impressed by Koufax

Oct. 2, 1963 - The New York Yankees, slightly subdued, moderately impressed, and completely unshaken, regrouped in their dressing room...

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Dodgers Take Game 1 of Series as Koufax Fans 15

Oct. 2, 1963 - The Dodgers defeated the Yankees, 5-2, in the first game of the 1963 World Series today in the Bronx. The man of the day...

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Kennedy Administration Says Vietnam War Could Be Won by 1965

Oct. 2, 1963 - The U.S said tonight that the war in South Vietnam might be won by the end of 1965 if the political crisis there did not...

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Valachi Continues to Sing

Oct. 2, 1963 - The Cosa Nostra stopped accepting new members in 1958, Joseph Valachi (pictured right today speaking to counsel) told...

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ABC’s “Combat!” Series Wins Award

Oct. 2, 1963 - ABC’s “Combat!” series, dramatizing the U.S. Army’s fight across Europe in World War II, has been awarded a Certificate of...

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First Lady Leaves on Mediterranean Vacation

Oct. 2, 1963 - Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy departed last night for a two-week vacation in Greece and the Mediterranean. The First Lady’s...

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Yankee and Dodger Skippers Both Express Confidence

Oct. 1, 1963 - The respective managers of tomorrow’s World Series combatants, Walter Alston of the Dodgers and Raph Houk of the Yankees,...

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Yankees and Dodgers Set to Face off in 60th World Series

Oct. 1, 1963 - With two of the game’s outstanding hurlers poised for a tremendous southpaw duel, baseball’s 60th World Series will open...

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TV: Tonight on “The Fugitive”

Oct. 1, 1963 - Tonight on “The Fugitive,” a friendly country girl (Sandy Dennis) has a crush on Kimble (David Janssen) and wants to help...

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Sinatra Backs out of Crosby TV Show

Oct. 1, 1963 - Frank Sinatra was reported today to have withdrawn voluntarily from a Bing Crosby television show after he was informed...

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Cosa Nostra Songbird Valachi Exposes Mob Secrets

Oct. 1, 1963 - Joseph Valachi calmly recited today the bloody history of a war for control of the Cosa Nostra crime syndicate. From this...

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Emperor Haile Selassie Welcomed to Washington by President and Mrs. Kennedy

Oct. 1, 1963 - Emperor Haile Selassie, who became ruler of a nation before John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born, arrived in Washington today...